Young Turks host Ana Kasparian slammed Republicans on Wednesday — Veteran’s Day — for dismissing any question about US military actions like the Iraq War by accusing critics of “not respecting the troops.”...

A coalition of nations most at risk from climate change appealed Wednesday for a crucial UN summit to enshrine a much tougher target on global warming, warning that more than one billion lives were at stake. Members of the Climate Vulnerable...

Oregon’s attorney general is investigating the state’s digital surveillance of Twitter users who wrote #BlackLivesMatter and other hashtags and has put one employee on leave, saying she was “appalled” by her...

The father of pop singer Katy Perry, Keith Hudson, was the target of a bizarre rant by a conservative Christian activist blaming him for her son’s actions, the Frisky reported. “You think you’re acting like a Christian right...

A gunman was shot and killed on Wednesday after firing several shots from a construction site next to a San Francisco hospital, police said. The incident unfolded around 4 p.m. local time near the St. Luke’s campus of the California...

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff members took part in a protest against racism Wednesday afternoon on the academic quad of Ithaca College, amid recent similar actions on a few other U.S. campuses, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The...

Native American tribes on Wednesday called for the U.S. government to halt plans to strip grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone of Endangered Species Act protection because it would open the way for trophy hunting in Idaho and two other states...

Activist who with his brother David has donated hundreds of millions to conservative causes says he has no plans to endorse anyone in nomination race Activist billionaire Charles Koch, who with his brother David has contributed hundreds of...

Fighting raged Wednesday in a flashpoint town in southeastern Turkey as the death toll mounted from attacks blamed on Kurdish rebels and local lawmakers warned of a humanitarian crisis. Turkish security forces backed up by tanks and combat...

Police in South Boston, Virginia broke their own rules and Tased a man multiple times, then reneged on a planned trip to the hospital, before he died in their custody, MSNBC reported. Newly-released footage shows three officers using the devices...

Another white Missouri man was arrested on Wednesday after posting an online threat of violence against black people, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Northwest Missouri State Unversity freshman Connor B. Stottlemyre was taken to jail on...

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart dug into Donald Trump again on Tuesday during a rare stand-up appearance benefiting US veterans, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “People are like, ‘I like Trump; he says what he thinks.’...

A woman up in arms over Campbell’s Soup’s new commercial for their Star Wars-inspired soups featuring a child with gay parents ended up getting massively out-trolled, according to LGBT blog Queerty. In the ad, one of the dads uses...

A chimpanzee mother cared for her disabled infant in the wild in Tanzania, Japanese researchers reported in a study published this week, research they hope will help in understanding the evolution of social care in humans. A team of Kyoto...

A Utah judge has ordered a baby to be removed from the foster home of her potential adoptive parents because the couple caring for her is gay, the New Civil Rights Movement reports. April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce were shocked when Judge Scott...